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Leners Paten: No. 71,416, dated November 26, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN GARPENTERS HATGHETS.

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TO ALL WHOM MAY OONCERN':

Beit known that I, JOHN T. SHANK, ofltlartnshurg, Berkeley county, State of Virginia, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Nail-Drawer and Hatchet combined; and I do hereby declare the followingtto i be an exact description. thereof, reference'being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of refer-` ence marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

, The nature of my invention consists in the construction of the nail-drawer at the top of the hatchet convex, and having the slot for receiving the head of the nail. k

A represents the handle of the hatchet; B, the hatchet; O is the nail-drawer at the top of t-he hat-Chet, convex along the top of the hatchet, and lengthwise, and solid with the hatchet, with an aperture, D, to receive the head of a nail, and a slot, E, tapering on the arch of the nail-drawer, from the round aperture D to a point, so that when the head of a, nail is passed through the aperture D, the drawer is slipped uponthe nail until Y i the nail is held securely by the slot, and by pressing the handle A. downward, the nail is quickly and easily withdrawn.' 4 Y i I do not claim a pointed claw at the top ofthe hatchet; but, i

What I claim as my invention, and desire to'secure by Lette-rs Patent, is i The construction of the arched nail-drawer C, with its slot E, at the top of the hatehet B, as herein si@ described, and for the purposes set forth.' l i JOHN T. SHANK.`

Witnesses:

GEORGE SHAW, FRANK D. SMILEY. 

